Elkin, who teaches a bar exam preparation course at Pennsylvania State U., provides a text for law students, those who have previously failed the bar exam, and foreign lawyers preparing for a commercial bar review course. He introduces the exam, offers approaches to organizing the law for efficient studying, and illustrates "broad lens" and "narrow lens" concepts of reading questions. He describes active preparation and learning, how to answer questions based on fact patterns, and common mistakes students can learn from. Aspen Publishers is now Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)